NetworkWorld Column: The silver bullet for privacy breaches

This week I'm getting the pipe because NetworkWorld doesn't publish due to the July 4th holiday here in the US. 125,000 readers will be in search of their Rothman fix, but alas they'll get two weeks of Kevin Tolly instead. Can you hear the cries of despair from around the world?

I wrote a column anyway and they were kind enough to highlight it on the home page (with the wrong link, of course - but that will be fixed in an hour or two).

In this column I go after all of you, basically pointing the finger at ourselves for many of these privacy breaches. Everyone always wants a silver bullet to stop these privacy breaches and get employees to consistently do the right thing, but get over it - there is none. But there are things we can do both in the short term and longer term to help alleviate the problem. Note I said alleviate, as opposed to eliminate.

So, check it out and let me know what you think.

http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2006/070306rothman.html?page=1